A Victorian Love Story

Chapter 4: Dirty Deeds

Inside the Sir Pentious manor

Arackniss along with Sir Pentious sat inside the dining room. Sir Pentious stayed silent, Arackniss took off his hat and spoke. "Pent, we've got a serious problem on our hands. Your fiasco yesterday brought a lot of attention to you." Pent looked puzzled, he leaned closer towards the table. "Aracknisss, I don't understand what you mean. Isssn't that what overlordsss do?" Niss sighed and pushed a folded paper towards Pen. When Sir Pentious began to read it Arackniss explained what it meant. "There is a big target on your back Pen. You should've laid low cause now you are a slithering death trap. Even I have limits on how much help I can provide. Ti amo ma sei sciocco." Pent sat the paper down and chuckled, he slithered into the kitchen and brought back a expensive bottle of whine. "Aracknisss thisss only makesss my job more fun~ Now join me for a drink." Arackniss sighed and the two enjoyed a nice glass of vintage wine.

Tony became bored of sitting in the docked airship and decided to head out onto the roof of Sir Pentious's manor. The view was rather pleasant despite the dead trees and blood red sky. Nevertheless, he searched for the way inside and found a hatch that led inside. While he made his way inside, laughter echoed through the halls. Kinda creepy but he wasn't afraid of creepy. Tony walked through the hall looking at the old decor, even the portraits made him feel like he entered the wrong century. When he reached the source, he was rather disappointed in the results. Arackniss and Pent were drunk, gentlemen wrestling on the floor. Tony stood there arms crossed and a toothy grin on his face. The two sprawled until they were at his feet, Pent looked up blushing at the man watching them.

Tony giggled and helped the snake off Arackniss, who also got up and cleared his shirt of the dust. "I'm guessing you two are just playing around not what it looks like? I don't mind either way hehehe." Pent blushed and his hood fanned out at Tony's flirt. Arackniss cleared his throat and replied. "I thought we asked for privacy, pretty rude of you to not respect that." Tony rolled his eyes and walked up to Pent. "I need to ask something from you if you don't mind." Tony turned to Arackniss and back at Pent. "How did you get this place? You must be ridiculously wealthy to afford it." Sir Pentious smirked and grabbed Tony by the tail. "I truly am haha! I'm an overlord in the making! All ssshall bend to my terror!" Arackniss chuckled and put his suit jacket back on. "Hey Wolfy, if you want to see what we do, I'll show ya first hand." Pent glared at Arackniss. "Nissy! He's new here, he's not ready for that experience yet." Tony tilted his head confused. "Not ready for what? I got into this mess, judging by how my experience has been I'd outta learn to defend myself. What is this thing you do?" Pent sighed and poured another glass of whine. "I'm an inventor, I would great powerful weapons. No one issss better at that than me. Assss for Aracknisss, He'ssss uh..a form of bodyguard." Arackniss shook his head and put his hat on. "I'm a hit man kid. I'm no damn bodyguard. I ain't no ammeter neither." Tony looked very confused, how could someone that small be a pro hitman? Plus, he didn't look like a professional a few minutes ago, he had to be bluffing.

Arackniss walked up to the wolf and dragged him out of the room. "I can tell you're doubting me, but I'll show ya a thing or two. Pent is only worried because you're new. So I'd say we go to the roof and have target practice. Sound good newbie?" Tony nodded, Pent followed, his nerves were making him worried that Tony might see something he shouldn't have. When they reached the roof, Arackniss set up three targets. A dead tree, an old can sat on the gate and an old bucket rotting away beside the homemade well. He then loaded his revolver and effortlessly shot all three targets. "Ha nailed it like usual, now it's your turn, remember not to point the gun at anyone unless you mean to kid." Pent whined a bit, but watched closely as Tony fired his first shot. He blew a small branch off he tree into the garden, then he shot the can, the bullet ricocheted and hit the bucket in the center. To say Arackniss was shocked was an understatement, Tony got lucky with those shots, yet his handling was on a pro level. Pent sighed and asked the two to get back inside before people notice. The three went back inside and talked about random things. Tony was learning a lot about the two, Arackniss and Sir Pentious were like what his father and mother used to be, happy and hopeful. Maybe things wouldn't be so bad after all...

(Number 4 done baby! Now the story is coming together, I hope it'll only get better from here)